Bottenwil

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Bottenwil

Total population

791

Elevation490 m

Land area5.1 km²

Coordinates47.29°, 8.01°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Bottenwil is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

E

Ernst Aeppli

Swiss writer and psychologist (1892-1954)

A

Adolf Welti

Swiss politician (1876-1951)

P

Paul Arnold Walty

Swiss association football player (1881-1969)

F

Friedrich Niggli

Swiss composer and music educator (1875-1959)

Emma Kunz

Swiss healer and artist (1892-1963)

K

Karl Meyer

Swiss medievalist (1885-1950)

Ivan Dreyfus

Swiss association football player (1884-1975)

A

Albrecht Bohnenblust

Swiss politician (1770-1841)

A

Alfred Leonz Gassmann

Swiss musician (1876-1962)

C

Candid Hochstrasser

Swiss politician (1846-1908)

J

Jakob Kunz

American physicist

Isaak Steiger

Swiss politician (1669-1749)

A

Arnold Niggli

(1843-1927)

F

Franz Theodor Aerni

Swiss painter (1853–1918)

Jakob(Jacob) Jäggi

botanist (1829-1894)

F

Franz Purtschert

Swiss sculptor, painter (1925-1981)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Yellow-legged Hornet

Vespa velutina

Seen 2026-09-20

Marmalade Hover Fly

Episyrphus balteatus

Seen 2026-09-20

Common Darter

Sympetrum striolatum

Seen 2026-09-20

Square-spot Rustic

Xestia xanthographa

Seen 2026-09-19

Many-seeded Goosefoot

Lipandra polysperma

Seen 2026-09-19

Strawberry clover

Trifolium fragiferum

Seen 2026-09-19

Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Macroglossum stellatarum

Seen 2026-09-19

Eurasian Blackcap

Sylvia atricapilla

Seen 2026-09-19

hypericum rhopalid

Rhopalus subrufus

Seen 2026-09-18

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers